Improvement in manufacturing flat ornamental chains



JOSEPH J. FREEMAN.

Improvement in Manufacturing Flat Ornamental Chains.

Patentedlan.1'6,1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH J. FREEMAN, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO FREEMAN 85 CO., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURING FLT ORNAMENTAL CHAINS.

Specification forming part Of Letters Patent No. 122,824, dated January 16, 1872.

the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in the Manufacture of'Chain forJewelry, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in an improved mode of turning the ends of .the staples used to hold the beads in a chain formed of two or more rows of links arranged to break joints with each other.

The drawing, Fig. l, shows a plain and a sectional view of a chain formed of seven rows of links, arranged to break joints with eaeh other, being held vtogether' by means of the staples a t a a, which are bent over at w' a a. a' in such a manner as to present the same appearance upon both edges of the chain. The ends of the staples are at first as shown at b b. One ot them is to be turned over and the end of the other eut oli', as shown at o. The short end is then to be turned down O11 the next lower row Oi' beads, as shown at d c1,whieh makes a very secure fastening without lapping I, JOSEPH J. FREEMAN, of Attleborough, in

the ends of the staples as heretofore, and at the same time entirely avoids the expense and trouble of soldering. When the chain is made with an ,even number of rows of links, the

the link in the next adjoining longitudinal row.

of beads, thus producing a chain without soldering, in which the transverse Vstaples present the same appearance on bot-h of the edges.

JOSEPH J. FREEMAN. Witnesses:

DEXTER B. POTTER, SOCRATES SOHOLEIELD. 

